Re: [CH] Drunken Chicken
Doug Irvine (dougandmarie@shaw.ca)
Tue, 04 Jun 2002 20:05:39 -0700
Here, again after about four years, is my tried and true recipe for
Drunken Hen, Gallinas borrachas:
3-4 lbs cut up frying chicken
1/2 cup shortening or lard
3 peeled tomatoes chopped
1 good sized onion chopped
2 tbls chopped cilantro
1 slice of cooked ham, 3/4 lb
1 chorizo, or if unavailable, garlic sausage
1-1/2 cups of good dry sherry
1/4 tsp each of cloves and cinnamon
1 dash of nutmeg
1/2 cup each of seedless raisins and blanched almonds, chopped
Fry the chicken pieces in the fat, and when brown, remove and retain one
tbls. Add the chopped tomatoes and onion and cilantro, and cook about
five minutes.
Add the ham, chopped up and the chorizo, spices, raisins, almonds and
sherry and simmer for about fifteen minutes. Add the reserved chicken
and cook for another five minutes. If too thin, thicken with a mixture
of corn meal and a little water. Notice that this is not overly spiced
with chiles, so add to your own taste level. I usually throw in a couple
of my own dried Thai chiles, or sometimes a hab or two. I have been
doing this recipe for over thirty years and it never fails to get raves.
Cheers, Doug in BC